Introduction To all my Friends:

Introductory post explaining why I started the blog, and soliciting your medical stories.

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#publichealth #southafrica #medicine #politics #healthcare #quaker #leftist #leftism #sociology #history

ah man how could I have known I was voting for the concentration camp president when all he did was campaign on concentration camps

me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]

A stainless steel pot holds mandarins, cloves, cinnamon, anise, lots of red wine and a dash of apple cider and brandy. It’s mulled wine. The mandarins are vibrant orange against the red liquid and have the cloves stuck in their skin

Whipping up my favorite holiday dish 😅

Why didn't they just put the photos inside a glass case that only the manager can open

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Bear knowledge

It's December, so here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do while chilling out for the holidays in order to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. You don't have to do all of them, but they're stuff to consider!

Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestini...

Meta has increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook.

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There are approximately zero instances where philanthropic dollars are best directed to a new organization run by You, The Person Fresh To The Problem instead of to a very exhausted person who's been doing the work on a shoestring with no resources for decades and knows the problem space

People have said so much about how brutal China’s One Child Policy was, well the current American war on reproductive freedom has the same core value of regarding women’s bodies only as a source of labor to be managed based on economic need.

the one thing, above all, I’d suggest to the newskies:

be kind

block and mute the shitheads, don’t engage them if at all possible, and just… treat people with respect

we have a real chance to build a better culture, let’s take it

This is one of my favorite comics because I’ve heard from several people who successfully put out oil fires because of it xkcd.com/1890

An illustration of an office tower on fire

I was just pulling into the parking lot at work and two fire trucks came speeding around the corner and yeah for a second I hoped it was my office, good morning!

This reminds me of when my car was stolen and the thief didn't find my AirPods so I had a location of the car and the austin police wouldn't meet me at the car so I had to steal it back myself

Cops are never trying to help you out. If they're talking to you, they think you crimed. Don't speak to cops.

That right to remain silent? Use it.

Also, talking to cops, which these folks also did. We really need to normalize not talking to cops ever.

I really cannot stress enough that people need to stop criming on social media. Meta handed over the messages. Most social media apps will respond to subpoenas, which is why you can’t talk about how you’re trying to get an abortion on Facebook or on Twitter or on iMessage in a hostile state. Please.

Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughter Jessica Burgess faced eight years in prison for helping her then 17-year-old get abortion pills. A plea deal brought it down to two.

NEW: A Nebraska mother who helped her daughter end her pregnancy with abortion pills has plead guilty to three charges. The daughter plead guilty in May and will be sentenced next week. Both face two years in prison for accessing healthcare the state made unavailable

new game idea: hardcore tug-of-war, 1v1, the rope is tied around each person's neck, loser dies